Burgermeister Bob Serves Up a Great Book

Bob Sloan, perhaps one of the areas most prolific writers, has just published a great new cookbook for burger lovers: Great Burgers: Mouthwatering Recipes. You might wonder how you can put together an entire book of burger recipes, but Sloan does it with aplomb. Yes, there are the recipes for the basic burger (meat, salt, oil, and buns), but then there are the Bob creations which take burgers to a whole new level. Try the portobello mushroom and goat cheese burger. The breakfast burger is a yummy creation that will make even Monday mornings look good. Sloan gives great advice on the basics of cooking up a good burger (dont overcook it). And his writing is a treat: The burger is working class, a solid citizen--a humble and unpretentious marriage of meat and heat. .. Gussy up a burger too much and it looks out of place, like a farmer in a tux. Or his advice on raw onion: Thinly sliced only! Avoid the inch-thick bar-burger onion slices, which only serve to devolve the burger itself into a condiment. Sloan and his wife Randi teach at the Dalton School in New York City, and spend their summers off in Leelanau County. He has written a series of Lenny Bliss mysteries and several cookbooks, the most famous of which is Dads Own Cookbook.